General information (incl. location, events)
Exhibitions are open to the general public from 9:30 – 12:20 & 13:30 – 16:30 Monday to Friday. The workshop space is available for hire 7 days per week from 9:00 – 23:00.
If you are a local group or artist/designer we welcome your enquiry to hire the space for exhibitions or workshops.
Contact details: Deborah Holland Community Partnership Manager.
Tel: 01708 447 368 ext 238
Email: djh_fbs@yahoo.co.uk
Essex Museums
The Colchester Castle Museum
A visit to Colchester Castle Museum takes you through 2000 years of some of the most important events in British history. The museum caters for visitors ages from 5 yrs old.
Hedingham Castle
Hedingham Castle's Norman keep, 110 feet high, was built c.1140 by Aubrey de Vere and is still owned by one of his descendants, The Honourable Thomas Lindsay and his wife Virginia. There are four floors to explore, including a magnificent Banqueting Hall spanned by a remarkable 28 foot arch, one of the largest Norman arches in England.
The Holly Trees Museum
Enjoy 300 years of history through hands-on exhibits and displays with fun and humour in mind.
The Natural History Museum
Housed in the unique setting of the former All Saints Church in 1957, the museum focuses on the rich natural heritage of north east Essex.
Tymperleys Clock Museums
The museum now houses the famous Bernard Mason collection, one of the largest collection of clocks in Britain.
Layer Marney Tower was built in 1525 by Henry, first Lord Marney, Lord Privy Seal to Henry VIII. Originally intended as a palace to rival Hampton Court, only the gatehouse was completed and is now the tallest Tudor gatehouse in the country.
Groups, Guided Tours and Educational Visits welcome by arrangement.
Epping Forest District Museum
The museum tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in this part of west Essex from the earliest inhabitants to the present.
Housed in a building dating to 1520. The Museum offers something for all the family, with plenty of gallery trails and hands on activities for kids.
Southend Museums Service
The Southend Museums Service comprises four buildings, the Central Museum and Planetarium, Southchurch Hall, Prittlewell Priory and the Beecroft Art Gallery.
These house diverse collections covering local social and human history, and as well as a fine collection of works of art.
Entry to all the museum branches is free, although there is a small charge for visiting the Southend Planetarium, situated within the Central Museum
The Braintree District Museum
Gallery exhibits interpret the diverse local industrial heritage: the production of fabrics for State occasions during the past 200 years and innovations in metal window design and man-made textiles in which our District led the world.
Brentwood Museum
The museum is housed in a picturesque 19th century building once a sexton's cottage, and although small it offers a fascinating insight into Brentwood life in the early part of this century, with an exciting collection of social and domestic objects dating from around 1840-1950.
The Essex Regiment Museum
The Essex Regiment Museum tells the story of The Pompadours and the Fighting Fours.
The 44th and 56th Regiments from 1741, to the modern Royal Anglian Regimen. Essex men have over 250 years service in battle and in barracks all over the World.
The Chelmsford Museum
Follow the STORY OF CHELMSFORD from the Ice Ages - via the Roman Town - right up to the present day. Listen, look and smell as a Bronze Age smith makes bronze axe heads. Find out how the town of Chelmsford grew and changed, and how it is still changing!
The Redbridge Museum
The museum explores the many different places, people and events in over 150,000 years of Redbridge history. It features touch screen computer interactive's, a video wall, a specially designed children's trail and an object touch trail with braille and large print labels.
The Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey
Set in 175 acres of natural parkland and boasting 21 important historic buildings, the site mixes fascinating history, exciting science and beautiful surroundings to produce a magical trip for both old and young.
The Thurrock Museum
Exhibitions and galleries depicting the culture and heritage of this part of Essex.
Valence house Museum
Valence House Museum is the only surviving of the five manor houses of Dagenham. It is sited in parkland and is partially surrounded by a moat.
London Museums
The Cockney Museum
The online virtual museum of Cockney culture & traditions
The 24 Hour Museum
The 24 Hour Museum is the new national virtual museum and is funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Features of this site include the ability so search from a database of over 2,500 museums, galleries and heritage attractions.
The site also has a section "Kids@24", specifically targeted at children.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A is the National Museum of Art and Design.
The "Learning" section of the site details the activities and facilities they provide for different groups of people including adults, community groups, families, people with disabilities, schools, students, teachers and lecturers.
The Museum of Childhood
The Museum of Childhood has the UK's national collection of toys, games and childhood objects. It offers a memorable day out for visitors of all ages, a lively programme of activities, an opportunity to reminisce, and provides a second-to-none teaching resource for primary schools.
The Clink Museum
The museum is located in Clink Street near London Bridge. It shows reconstructions of cell interiors and contains a hands-on display of original and reproduction restraining and torturing devices.
The Clock Museum
After fourteen years of painstaking research, planning, acquisitions, and conservation, the Clockmakers' Company Collection has been re-launched.
The Design Museum
The Design Museum is one of London's most inspiring attractions. Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of critically acclaimed exhibitions captures the excitement of design's evolution, ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Dickens House Museum
A museum dedicated to the life and works of Charles Dickens.
The Fan Museum
The Fan Museum is the only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making.
The Fan Museum is home to a collection of more than 3,000 predominantly antique fans from around the world dating from the 11th century to the present day.
The Fashion and Textile Museum
The Fashion and Textile Museum (FTM) represents the life long dream of founder, ZANDRA RHODES. Located in one of the fashion capitals of the world, LONDON, UK, this museum showcases the talent of local and international fashion and textile designers.
The Florence Nightingale Museum
The Florence Nightingale Museum aims to grow as the international centre for preserving Florence Nightingale's heritage and interpreting the relevance of her life and work for the benefit of the present and future generations.
The Freud Museum
The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982.
The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.
The Gilbert Collection
The Gilbert Collection was formed over four decades by the late Sir Arthur Gilbert who first started to collect English silver, attracted by its historical and decorative qualities.
His passion for great craftsmanship then led him to collect Italian mosaics, gold boxes, portrait miniatures and Roman enamel mosaics, for which he coined the term micro mosaic to evoke the painstaking skill of this demanding technique.
The Handel House Museum
The Handel House Museum is located at 25 Brook Street, London, home to the baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759.
The Horniman Museum
The museum's wide range of collections and gardens uniquely illustrate the breadth of the World's natural and cultural diversity, and can be a powerful resource and stimulus for all styles of exploration and learning by all visitors.
The Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum opens a window onto the history and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond. It seeks to recover and preserve the diverse roots and heritage of Jewish people in Britain, and to increase knowledge and understanding about Jewish life and history.
Keats House
The museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, documentation, exhibition and interpretation of the life and works of the poet John Keats.
The Kew Bridge Steam House
The museum is housed in a magnificent 19th Century Pumping Station and centres around the station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of which can be seen, in steam, every weekend.
The London Transport Museum
By conserving and explaining the capital city's transport heritage, London's Transport Museum offers people an understanding of the capital's past development and engages them in the debate about its future.
The National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century.
The National Maritime Museum
This museum is said to be the largest museum of its kind in the world.
The Royal Airforce Museum
The museum is dedicated wholly to aviation. These pages will give you a flavour of the Museum, its collections, services and administration.
The Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons
There are three museums at the College. The Hunterian and Odontological Museums are open to the public. The Wellcome Museum is only open to members of the medical profession and students of medicine.
The Royal Observatory - Greenwich
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian of the world.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The house was last used as a lodging house in 1936 and the famous 1st floor study overlooking Baker Street is still faithfully maintained as it was kept in Victorian Times.
The Theatre Museum
Britain's National Museum of the Performing Arts. Situated in the heart of London's theatre land, we hold the world's largest and most important collections relating to the British stage.
The Wimbledon Tennis Museum
The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum offers a glimpse of how the gentle game of Lawn Tennis, once all the rage on the lawns of Victorian England and with origins that go far back to medieval Royal Tennis, has become a multi-million dollar professional sport, played all over the world.
Havering Museum
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Havering Museum which opened in May 2010, tells the story of the history of the Borough through objects, text and images. There are five special areas dedicated to Havering-atte-Bower, Hornchurch, Romford, Rainham and Upminster. There are hands on activities and programmes of events to suit all ages. For more information please click here.
Havering Museum collects objects which tell the story of the borough. Please contact Havering Museum to find out about the gift procedures on 08452 707 737 or email curator@haveringmuseum.org.uk
Heritage in Havering booklet published
Havering has many sites of heritage interest but, partly due to the borough's large size, sites appear to be few and far between. Many are of special interest to local areas, reflecting the development of a village, town or agricultural settlement.
You can download the Heritage in Havering booklet from the link below.
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Heritage in Havering booklet